complications around how a personal relationship–or even the perceptions of one-- might affect workplace decisions

Agreed with everything you said. Just wanted to add the term “conflict of interest” to this part. If they had to make a decision that was good for the team and/or the customer, but bad for their lover, they might not make the best decision.

During roman times, it was common with complete orgies.

oh fam thank you… I needed a good laugh…

Why did the Romans construct so many buildings? for their ORGIES

Why did the Romans build acqueducts? to clean up after the ORGIES

Why did the Romans make their roads? to get to their ORGIES

Why did the Romans conquer so many people? because they needed folks for their ORGIES

thank you, friend. fwiw you’re kinda right about morality being a social construct, but I don’t know if that’s the best takeaway from all this.

Yeah, I didn’t realize that when I first heard it. I guess that’s why it’s a punishment. If they just hung a tiny parakeet off his neck, it wouldn’t be much of a punishment.

Original Illustration to Samuel Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, 1798 (not colorized).